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Buildings started. Surface area. By destination. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Buildings started. Surface area. By destination. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
Non residential
Residential Establishments Industry Trade & warehouses Offices Hostelry Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 5.9 0.9 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.5 2.0
Alt Empordà 35.8 6.7 0.3 54.1 0.9 1.0 81.7 144.6
Alt Penedès 8.9 0.1 15.0 10.4 0.9 0.6 27.9 55.0
Alt Urgell 2.7 0.4 0.0 4.6 0.0 0.0 8.7 0.6
Alta Ribagorça 0.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
Anoia 19.4 1.4 0.0 8.2 3.1 0.0 28.4 41.0
Bages 20.3 4.6 0.0 11.9 16.5 3.1 29.5 65.6
Baix Camp 35.9 6.3 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 4.8 11.9
Baix Ebre 7.0 1.7 4.2 6.1 0.2 0.3 35.7 48.2
Baix Empordà 26.7 7.2 0.6 6.1 0.0 0.3 19.5 33.7
Baix Llobregat 217.6 22.8 8.9 88.1 66.5 5.9 122.9 315.1
Baix Penedès 14.1 1.3 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 3.8 5.8
Barcelonès 267.0 1.5 30.9 123.4 90.8 58.1 359.1 663.9
Berguedà 4.8 0.6 0.0 0.2 3.7 0.0 4.3 8.9
Cerdanya 5.8 1.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 1.5 2.8
Conca de Barberà 4.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 1.4 0.4 2.1
Garraf 25.2 3.4 22.6 8.1 0.8 0.0 19.0 53.9
Garrigues 8.6 1.1 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 2.4
Garrotxa 6.2 1.1 0.0 0.4 0.4 1.6 8.8 12.2
Gironès 27.2 5.7 4.3 0.9 0.0 0.0 63.5 74.3
Maresme 82.9 3.4 0.3 6.3 1.4 0.8 117.2 129.3
Montsià 10.5 4.8 2.1 49.5 0.0 0.0 16.0 72.5
Noguera 9.2 2.8 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.2 3.5
Osona 33.7 4.2 6.4 10.2 4.6 0.0 47.7 73.2
Pallars Jussà 1.8 0.0 0.2 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.3
Pallars Sobirà 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.5
Pla d'Urgell 4.5 1.4 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.9
Pla de l'Estany 13.4 0.4 0.5 1.1 0.0 0.0 1.1 3.1
Priorat 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.8
Ribera d'Ebre 3.2 0.4 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.9
Ripollès 4.9 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 4.2 4.5
Segarra 1.2 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.2 2.5
Segrià 46.8 16.1 0.9 6.3 0.0 0.0 0.5 23.8
Selva, La 38.3 14.0 1.0 32.8 0.7 0.4 41.8 90.6
Solsonès 0.9 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.5
Tarragonès 24.1 0.8 1.8 4.1 0.0 0.0 5.9 12.7
Terra Alta 2.3 0.9 0.3 3.5 0.8 0.0 2.6 8.1
Urgell 6.6 1.6 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.6 0.3 3.0
Val d'Aran 1.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1
Vallès Occidental 168.9 22.5 0.0 55.4 73.8 5.2 153.0 309.9
Vallès Oriental 54.0 2.0 7.0 5.5 12.3 14.9 315.5 357.2
Catalonia 1,254.2 145.0 108.3 498.5 277.4 96.1 1,519.6 2,644.9
Metropolità 790.4 52.3 47.0 278.6 244.9 84.8 1,067.7 1,775.3
Comarques Gironines 152.5 35.3 6.6 95.6 2.0 3.3 220.5 363.2
Camp de Tarragona 70.7 8.2 2.4 5.5 0.0 1.4 12.1 29.5
Terres de l'Ebre 22.9 7.8 6.5 60.1 1.0 0.3 54.9 130.6
Ponent 76.7 23.6 1.7 7.8 0.0 2.2 1.8 37.1
Comarques Centrals 59.7 9.5 6.4 22.3 24.8 3.1 82.0 148.2
Alt Pirineu i Aran 13.5 2.0 0.2 1.2 0.0 0.3 1.7 5.4
Penedès 67.7 6.2 37.6 27.3 4.8 0.6 79.1 155.7
Barcelona 903.1 66.6 91.1 327.6 274.5 88.5 1,224.6 2,072.9
Girona 155.5 36.0 6.6 95.6 2.0 3.3 221.6 365.0
Lleida 87.8 25.0 1.9 9.0 0.0 2.5 2.8 41.1
Tarragona 107.8 17.4 8.9 66.3 1.0 1.7 70.7 166.0
Units: Thousands of square metres.
Source: Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat. Secretaria d'Habitatge i Millora Urbana.
Notes:
(1) Includes agricultural and sports.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: April 13, 2012.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Housing starts
Residential construction project supervised by the college of surveyors.
Establishment
Structurally separate and independent area where economic activities dependent on a company are or could be carried out.

Methodological aspects

The information on buildings started comes from the building work approvals by the Official Associations of Surveyors, Architectural Technicians and Building Engineers of Catalonia.

Since these are administrative data from a set of professional associations, the total construction activity for non-residential buildings in Catalonia is not included.

From 2014 there is a break in the series due to the application of methodological changes.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".